Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!aie!corne From: corne@aie.uucp (Corne Brouwers) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Any DDE experience out there? Message-ID: <1991Apr16.075505.19995@aie.uucp> Date: 16 Apr 91 07:55:05 GMT References: Organization: AI Engineering, Amsterdam. Lines: 32 In article bills@hutch.rabbit.com (Bill Sappington) writes: >Does anyone out there have experience with DDE? We're going to be adding >DDE support to our application in the near future and I'd like to get a >handle on what other people are doing with it. I've RTFM and got some > >Thanks in advance, > >-Bill > Well, I have some experience with DDE. First of all, the articles I read about DDE all sound great and promising, but programming DDE is not all that easy. I use the tool Knowledge Pro to implement different kinds of applications, mostly client server using DDE to conversate. When both applications are Knowledge Pro everything works fine. Now I'm trying to implement an application using Knowledge Pro and DynaComm and I can't seem to establish an error-free DDE conversation. Problem with tools like Knowledge Pro, Dynacomm etc is that they all provide a sample program where the tool is the client and MS-Exel is the server.Documentation on DDE is often poor, especially when you want to use the tool as a server and as I've already said, they don't include any sample programs. The sample programs and documentation included in the MS-SDK are actually quite good. If you are going to program your applications using the MS-SDK I think you won't meet too many problems. So far my experiences. BTW if anyone has a DDE_server script for DynaComm (version 3.0a by Futuresoft) I would appreciate it you you could send it to me. Thanks in advance, Corne. -- | Corne Brouwers, A.I. Engineering BV, Amsterdam | | corne@aie.UUCP |